Welcome back, been a hot minute since I updated this and I am sorry to anyone who was looking forwards to it. The song for today is "Sleep Walk my Life Away" by Metallica.


Night led the group through the star lit sky, his new pistol strapped side. Jasper to his right, Viper to his left, and Shade to his rear.

Night looked back behind him, "We are 30 miles out, we need to stay low," he order. The group lowered without saying anything, flying as if they had been their whole life from how hard they had been training.

He banked to the right, everyone following his motion, "Remember everyone, suspect this place is hostile till proven otherwise," Night said as they glided over the stoney beaches of New Zealand.

New Zealand has been neutral with both sides during the war but recently something suspicious had recently been going on in the area. Deep sea fishermen spotting unmarked vessels in the area and not responding to their radio calls at all.

Night caught wind of it not too long ago and New Zealand is kind of on the way to Japan so it would make a great stop on the way their to just make sure.

"We need to be ready for anything Night said as he flapped his wings to climb over the peaks of the next mountain.

Everyone stayed silent after that, quietly flapping their wings as they searched the ground below them, looking for a city.

Viper broke the silence as he started to mutter, "This is weird, we should almost be on-top of the city now..." he looked over at Night, "Let me get a bit lower," he said as he slowed down and started to lower, turning his scales partially invisible.

Just last week, he finally... kind of learned how to turn invisible with his color changing scales. Only being able to change... most of his body, missing a few talons or individual scales.

Viper dove down from the sky, lowering out of sight from the rest of the group until he came shooting right back up from the darkness, panic written on his face, "WE ARE OVER THE CITY!" he shouted in a whispered voice.

Nightfall faltered in the air as he turned on his power and turned on the night vision in his visor, spotting the city right below them.

"Shit..." he muttered as he started flapping his wings hard, speeding up to try and get out from over the city as fast as he could, everyone copying him.

They rapidly flew away from the city, Night's mind racing.

This is extremely sketchy now, the lights for the WHOLE city were off which only nations trying to hide something would do, and they were trying to still look innocent since Night never had any RWR go off while he was flying, so New Zealand had now anti air defenses up and running.

"We are landing in the mountains, we have to figure out what's going on," Night ordered as he held his wings forwards, halting his momentum to slow down and prepare to land. He flew to the closest flat on the mountain side, facing towards the dark city that he could now make out the outline of it now that he knew what to look for. He turned to look at the pale-colored dragon, "Shade, go ahead and set up for re-con, tell me if you find anything suspicious."

Shade nodded his head and pulled out his newly minted 76mm sniper off his back, racking in the first shell.

Night pointed at Viper, "You know what to do, keep invisible and roam around the area, try to find anything useful," he paused before continuing, "I was suspicious at first, but now I know they are hiding something," Night said in a deadly voice.

Jasper walked up besides Night, "What about me?"

"You are going to sit tight till one of us needs you, you're our heavy and we need you in-between all of us just in case," Night answered as he pulled out his pistol from the holster and checked it for ammo.

"And what about you?" Jasper asked.

Night racked in the shell and put it back in his holster, he de-activated his power armor, showing off his black scales. A wicked smile coming to his face, "What I do best." he dove off the cliff side and glided into the woods below, landing without a sound and leaving Jasper dumbfounded how his scales made it seem like he disappeared instantly.

The black scaled dragon landed without a sound and immediately checked around in the woods he was in. Not spotting anything, he started walking in the direction of the city. He stopped to look up into the night sky, looking at the position of the moon.

"You... your actually a NightWing."

Night almost stumbled, "Whose there?" he frantically said as he pulled out his pistol and almost re-actively used his fire to light up the area. He perked his ears up to listen for anything.

Nothing.

Night slightly shook his head, "Man my nerves must be shot... weird... I don't feel nervous." he kept walking forwards until he heard his earpiece start up.

"Night, I got something about two clicks out to the south, saw a few cargo ships come in with their lights off," Shade whispered through.

Night activated his power armor so he could speak through it, "Viper, you get that, meet me there."

He took off into the air, lowly flying over the woods. There was no denying it now, the only reason a cargo ship would ever keep their lights off is if they were bringing in something that they didn't want anyone to see.

Night landed on a ridge looking over the bay, spotting the outlines of the freighters, hearing the quiet muttering of individuals working in the port. He heard wings flap behind him, already knowing who they belonged too.

"So what's the plan?" Viper asked as he crouched down next to him.

Night looked over at where he thought the still invisible dragon was standing at, "Think you can get down there and figure out what they are bringing in?"

"Sure thing," Viper said as Night heard wings flap again and fly away.

"Shade, keep an eye out on the bay for any signs that we are going to have to intervene," Night said as he crept farther over the ridge, wanting to get a closer look himself from the shadows.

He made it to where the trees stopped, Night just being barely out of range from being able to tell what was going on. He almost jumped when he heard Viper speak through the comms.

"Guys... this is bad."

Night, fearing the worst, "What is it?"

"Tanks, helicopter frames, multiple military vehicles, tons of ammo creates... Night, this is all Russian stuff, they are even speaking Russian," Viper said, sounding worried.

Night remained quiet for a bit... "Shit" he shook his head and re-activated his mic, "Everyone in position, Jasper?"

"I am on my way there," he heard Jasper say through the mic.

"Shade?" Night went to ask but was cut off by him, "Already looking at my first target."

"Viper, try and find out why they are here, make sure you get pictures of this, we have to get this back home..." Night said worriedly. This might re-route the plans he had for Japan by months, maybe even years...

He heard wings fly in from behind him, he turned around to see Jasper dawning his new power armor, a large 20mm mini gun strapped to his back with two ammo drums also strapped onto his back with belts that fed into the gun. The dark grey armor that dawned red highlights outlining the large frame of the heavy armor.

"Jasper, you got the explosives?" Night asked.

Jasper nodded and bulled something off one of the side packs of the armor, "I got some C-4."

Night nodded and held out his left talon, "Let me see it."

Jasper handed him one of the bricks and put the rest of it back into his side.

Night stepped the brick to his side and turned back on his comms, "Everyone, wait for my signal," Night said as he started walking into the bay, his black power armor blending into the dark to where he could almost walk among the workers, and they would never see him.

He stayed to the shadows as he looked over all the cargo himself, almost sweating from how much there was here.

He almost panicked when a sound started up but calmed down when it was just his earpiece, "Night, it's an invasion, they made a deal with the president of New Zealand," Viper started explaining, "Russia paid them a shit ton of money so they could use their island as a base of operation to invade through Mexico."

Night spotted what he was looking for as he walked through the dark, hearing what he did, a grin came to his face. He could hear a faint hum coming from ahead of him, the generators.

He pulled back out the brick of C-4 and armed it, hooking it up to aplunger he took from Jasper. He threw the brick where he heard the sound coming from, hearing the brick clunk off something metal.

Night started walking away from where he threw it and turned back on his mic, "Exit light, Enter night... Happy hunting boys."

He pressed down the plunger and the place that held the generator blew up, lighting up the night sky as the diesel caught fire.

The sounds of Russians screaming was heard, trying to figure out what just happened, but then they were cut off by a large flash that came from the mountains.

Shade firing off his cannon sized sniper, hit one of the stockpiles of ammo right in the middle of the bay, lighting up the bay even more and all hell broke loose.

"Кто-нибудь, включите свет!" one Russian screamed, "На нас нападают" another screamed, "Свет не включается"

Night's smile only grew as he heard what they were saying, he unholstered his pistol and aimed at the first ammo depot in front of him, the light of Shades next shot lighting up his target. He pulled the trigger on his pistol, the ammo went up in flames and he re-holstered it, "DO IT NOW JASPER!" he roared into the still dark woods.

The whole place went quiet as they now stared at what sounded like an ungodly noise of growls and hisses, spotting the dragon in their mist. At least that was untill the bullets started flying.

Jasper's mini gun started spinning up and a flurry of tracers flew out of the woods, hitting all the ammo depots in the bay and blowing the whole bay like a keg. Jasper immediately cut off his gun as the fire died down.

People walking out of the fire like zombies, fire covering their bodies, limbs blown off and guts hanging out as they screamed in agony in a language that Jasper didn't even understand.

Night stared at the sight with a satisfied look until he turned around to spot Jasper watching in horror, not being able to take his eyes off of one of the Russian soldiers that just now fell but continued to scream and gurgle as blood poured out of his wounds.

Oh no... not the best way to take your first kill.

Night immediately ran over to the now hyperventilating dragon, grabbing ahold of his shoulder, "Come on Jasper, we have to move!" he yelled frantically, trying to get Jasper to think of literally anything else.

Jasper started making a gagging sound, dry heaving as he turned around and threw up his lunch.

"Come on buddy," Night said, this time sounding softer.

Jasper flinched as another loud bang went off, Shade shooting another ammo depot.

"Jasper, I know that you are in no mood to kill right now, so go and try to sink those freighters, I'll deal with the men." Night tried to order as he turned around.

The people saw him, there could be no survivors.

Night jumped back into the bay with one flap of his wings, landing in the middle of the burning mess, using his fire on everything and anyone that he saw. He turned around to see someone holding a gun at him until bullets ripped through the soldier.

He turned around to see Jasper holding his cannon that was turned on and rotating, "I got this, just... give me a moment."

Night almost wanted to smile but held it in, still seing Jasper shaking like a leaf, "Shade, what do we got?"

"Not much, the freighters are leaving but I already sent Viper off to deal with them, there were a couple people trying to man a tank, but I got them."

Night nodded his head but then felt embarrassed whenever he remembered Shade wasn't even there, "so no re-enforcements?"

"There was a group trying to get out of there, but once again, a well-placed shell dealt with that."

"Good work Shade," Night said, sounding happy, "we are leaving back for home, we have to get this back to base and warn them of what's going on," Night looked back over at Jasper who was now kneeling on the ground.

"So many..."

Night started to get annoyed, "Come on, I know it's bad, but we have to move."

Jasper stood up upset, "YOU KNOW!" Jasper roared, "HOW COULD YOU KNOW!"

Night roared back, slapping Jasper hard across the face, "Jasper, usually I would be fine with you being upset about this, but these are communist scum!" he said while pointing at the fires, "They were going to kill thousands of innocent people, YOU. ARE. A. HERO!"

Jasper shook his head, "How could a hero kill so much?"

Night jerked at that one, "The first time we met, you called me a hero from all the people I have saved... how do you think I saved them to begin with?"

Jasper went to say something, but Night cut him off, "Do you even have a remote idea what my kill count is?" Night took a deep breath, "How many I have had to kill just for more people to die anyways..."

"Night... I'm- I'm sorry, but I can't enjoy this," Jasper said while gasping.

Night shook his head, "I never said you had to enjoy it... just endure it." he looked back over at some of the blown-up bodies, "And I should be the sorry one, your first kill should have never been like this."